LETTER: Vote Roggensack for Supreme Court

Tuesday April 2, is a very important day for our state. Mark your calendar to remember to vote in the spring election. It's your civic duty.

A number of races will be on the ballot, but none will be as critical as the one for justice of the state Supreme Court.

One of the two candidates is the incumbent, Justice Pat Roggensack. She has served our state consistently with honor and professional fairness for nearly 17 years. Perhaps that's why she has been endorsed by 119 circuit court judges, 32 district attorneys and 53 Wisconsin county sheriffs of both parties.

Pat was a 1980 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. She practiced law for 16 years before becoming a Wisconsin Appeals Court judge.

The challenger is Ed Fallone of Whitefish Bay. He earned his law degree from Boston University in 1988 and has been a practicing attorney and Marquette University Law School associate professor for 21 years.

He has few (22) endorsers from law enforcement, but is endorsed by over a dozen major unions.

As the Associated Press cited in Sunday's issue of The Reporter, Mr. Fallone says his years of experience in business law and his years as a law professor teaching constitutional, criminal and corporate law gives him the knowledge needed to serve on the Supreme Court. However, he hasn't accumulated a single week of actual judicial experience.

Justice Roggensack says, "I have ruled on hundreds and hundreds of cases, I know where to look for precedents; I know how to review the case records. I can give the public a much more thorough review of the law having been a judge on the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court."

Vote on April 2 and choose Pat Roggensack for fairness, neutrality and independence at the highest level.